NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, April 7, Swann Galleries will hold an auction of African-American Fine Art, featuring works by modern and contemporary artists.

The sale is headlined by Faith Ringgolds 1988 story quilt, Double Dutch on the Golden Gate Bridge, the second quilt in her important 1988 Woman on a Bridge series. The series depicts women floating above the famous bridges of San Francisco and New York and includes Ringgolds most famous story quilt, Tar Beach. This is only the second of Ringgolds signature story quilts to come to auction: the first, Mayas Quilt of Life, sold at Swann in September 2015 as part of The Art Collection of Maya Angelou, realizing $461,000, a record for Ringgolds work at auction. Double Dutch on the Golden Gate Bridge, which has been shown extensively in museum exhibitions, is estimated at $150,000 to $250,000.

Modern highlights begin with Allan Freelons beautiful Baiting Trawls, oil on canvas, circa 1930-35 ($30,000 to $40,000). This scene of Gloucester is the largest painting by the artist to appear at Swann. Hughie Lee-Smiths 1938 oil on canvas, Portrait of a Boy, is a very rare example from his WPA era in Cleveland, and one of the earliest portraits by Lee-Smith to come to auction ($30,000 to $40,000). Elizabeth Catletts My right is a future of equality with other Americans, linoleum cut, 1947, is a scarce early color proof from her important series I am the Negro Woman ($7,000 to $10,000).

Also featured in the sale is a strong group of works by Norman Lewis from the 1940s and 50s. Included are two striking modernist oil paintings  Untitled (Figurative Abstraction), 1945 ($75,000 to $100,000), and Untitled, 1947 ($60,000 to $90,000, and the cover lot for the sale) ­ which show the range of his experimentation in his first years of abstraction. Lewiss Untitled (Processional Figure Composition), oil, pen and ink on cream wove paper, 1956, is a complex example of his "little figures" in the largest format the artist used for works on paper.

A figurative, postwar work that is sure to be of great interest is one of Palmer Haydens best-known paintings, The Blue Nile, 1964, depicting a reclining African mother and child sleeping beside the river ($35,000 to $50,000).

Contemporary abstraction is well represented with excellent works by Frank Bowling, Sam Gilliam, Jack Whitten William T. Williams and Kenneth Victor Young. A highlight is Sam Gilliams colorful Rondo IX, acrylic and collage on cotton canvas, 1983 ($50,000 to $75,000). Exhibited in Modern Painters at the Corcoran: Sam Gilliam, it is the first example from his Rondo series to come to auction. Frank Bowlings Irv Sandlers Visit, acrylic on canvas, 1977, is the first canvas from the artists poured paintings series to come to auction ($35,000 to $50,000).

Important works by contemporary artists Carrie Mae Weems and Wadsworth Jarrell round out the auction. Weems iconic Blue Black Boy, triptych of three toned gelatin silver prints, with Prestype and frame, 1987-88, from her celebrated Colored People series, is one of her best known images ($40,000 to $60,000). Jarrells The Messengers, acrylic on canvas, 1979, is his largest work on canvas and the first from his important 1970s period to come to auction ($30,000 to $40,000).